A few new ideas(http://www.thehumorwriter.com/Kids_Corner_--_Original_Storie/Ancient_Pompeii/ancient_pompeii.html) I learned about Pompeii today were that two cities were actually destroyed by the volcano, Pompeii and a city named Herculaneum. Pompeii was buried in in eight to ten feet of ash in nineteen hours. Also I learned that there were 2,000 people left in Pompeii and there was a death toll if 16,000 people.
A navigational strategy (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vesuvius/) that I found useful were the headings before each topic. Under the headings there were short descriptions to let the reader know what they are about to read. On many websites there will be headings that will tell (like a title) what the following text is going to be about.
One reliable source (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/history/history.html) that I found was the Discovery Channel website. I know that the Discovery Channel is a valid source that many researchers contribute to from my own experience. However if I was not sure about the Discovery Channel I could search online to be sure that the stories about Pompeii that it told me about were indeed valid.
One informational feature (http://www.fieldmuseum.org/pompeii/pompeii2/pompeii_content.html) that I found and thought would be interesting for fourth graders was the Interactive Time Line: Pompeii Eruption. This feature is an interactive time line that tells what happened throughout the day on the eruption and after up to present day. It was easy to use and interesting to read.
*Book Activity # 6*
Exploring Ancient Rome
Researcher Date___
This workshop will help you to learn more about the country that Jack and Annie travel to in our newest Magic Tree House book. You will have the chance to explore a couple of different websites in order to learn more about everyday life in Ancient Rome and to look at the information on each site and determine whether or not the information can be trusted. You will even get a chance to create your own mosaic! Be sure to take good notes so that you can share during our class discussion.
Go to the Ancient Rome Project website and view the table of contents on the main page. Please choose one topic from this list to master (learn everything you again about it) write about it in your own words here and be ready to teach the class all about it during our class discussion.
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Looking around a bit on the Ancient Rome Project website, how can you tell if this website is valid? Meaning how can you be sure that the information you are reading is true? What information on the website proves that the research provided is true?
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Visit the Ancient Rome from Nettlesworth Primary School website; here you are going to practice making connections. Click on the Child’s Life link and make two different connections to the wide variety of things you will read about here about Ancient Roman life. There is all different information on this page about how people from Ancient Rome live, what kinds of things are similar to your own life?
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Staying on the Ancient Rome from Nettlesworth Primary School website, in the Child’s Life link, read about mosaics. On the back side of this worksheet design your own mosaic. It could be a design of something that describes you or just a design that you made and really like. Use the picture of a mosaic that is provided if you are still are unsure of what one really is.
Evaluation Rubric
8 points: you were able to fully answer every question with of the information provided (2 points per question)
2 points: you shared the information you found during our class discussion about Ancient Rome so that we were all able to learn even more than we found on our own
10 points total!
Here is what I learned today:
A few new ideas (http://www.thehumorwriter.com/Kids_Corner_--_Original_Storie/Ancient_Pompeii/ancient_pompeii.html) I learned about Pompeii today were that two cities were actually destroyed by the volcano, Pompeii and a city named Herculaneum. Pompeii was buried in in eight to ten feet of ash in nineteen hours. Also I learned that there were 2,000 people left in Pompeii and there was a death toll if 16,000 people.
A navigational strategy (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vesuvius/) that I found useful were the headings before each topic. Under the headings there were short descriptions to let the reader know what they are about to read. On many websites there will be headings that will tell (like a title) what the following text is going to be about.
One reliable source (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/history/history.html) that I found was the Discovery Channel website. I know that the Discovery Channel is a valid source that many researchers contribute to from my own experience. However if I was not sure about the Discovery Channel I could search online to be sure that the stories about Pompeii that it told me about were indeed valid.
One informational feature (http://www.fieldmuseum.org/pompeii/pompeii2/pompeii_content.html) that I found and thought would be interesting for fourth graders was the Interactive Time Line: Pompeii Eruption. This feature is an interactive time line that tells what happened throughout the day on the eruption and after up to present day. It was easy to use and interesting to read.
*Book Activity # 6*
Exploring Ancient Rome
Researcher Date___
This workshop will help you to learn more about the country that Jack and Annie travel to in our newest Magic Tree House book. You will have the chance to explore a couple of different websites in order to learn more about everyday life in Ancient Rome and to look at the information on each site and determine whether or not the information can be trusted. You will even get a chance to create your own mosaic! Be sure to take good notes so that you can share during our class discussion.
- Go to the Ancient Rome Project website and view the table of contents on the main page. Please choose one topic from this list to master (learn everything you again about it) write about it in your own words here and be ready to teach the class all about it during our class discussion.
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- Looking around a bit on the Ancient Rome Project website, how can you tell if this website is valid? Meaning how can you be sure that the information you are reading is true? What information on the website proves that the research provided is true?
_- Visit the Ancient Rome from Nettlesworth Primary School website; here you are going to practice making connections. Click on the Child’s Life link and make two different connections to the wide variety of things you will read about here about Ancient Roman life. There is all different information on this page about how people from Ancient Rome live, what kinds of things are similar to your own life?
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Evaluation Rubric
8 points: you were able to fully answer every question with of the information provided (2 points per question)
2 points: you shared the information you found during our class discussion about Ancient Rome so that we were all able to learn even more than we found on our own
10 points total!